Philip Green Quotes

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Philip Green

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 15, 1952

I used to leave my house at 6:30 in the morning, and I would visit 10 shops every Saturday, starting at the furthest shop I'd decided to go to that day, ending up in Oxford Street 12 hours later.

Philip Green

Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.

Philip Green

I don't regret anything I haven't done.

Philip Green

Nobody can be a clairvoyant.

Philip Green

On what possible basis would I want to stop someone from buying BHS if I had tried to save it?

Philip Green

It is about attention to detail and then the minutest detail on top of that. I am an owner, and yet I'll argue about the sign on the wall.

Philip Green

If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can't be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace.

Philip Green

I sometimes think less is more. If you cut yourself in too many places, it is hard to execute.

Philip Green

I could spend my life having meetings, a meeting to have another meeting, a hundred meetings to have another thousand meetings. It's not what I'm about. I don't want to have to get in a queue; that's not how I like to live.

Philip Green

I was never going to be a scholar.

Philip Green

When I've had a talk with someone, I like them to leave unconfused. No need for contention.

Philip Green

I think I've got a good feel. A feel for... being able to walk with different people. Or for being able to look at people and think, 'Yeah, I might know what they want to wear.'

Philip Green

I think everybody, from every end of the market place, from young through to old, wants to be fashionable. Everybody. Women want to feel like they're wearing the right merchandise, regardless of age. They want to be trendy.

Philip Green

I don't think there's anyone who can be unaware of the relevance of Kate Moss, the effect that she's had on the fashion industry.

Philip Green

Stand in my lobby at 5:30 P.M., and there is no one who gets out of the lift who is not on a gadget. No one is talking to each other. I get in the lift and say, 'Hello,' and everyone's head is down tapping on a screen.

Philip Green